Thankful!

We had a fantastically long Thanksgiving weekend with family and friends.  A few pics for you (me!) to smile at on this back to business Monday!

We got asked to bring brownies to the big Farris family Thanksgiving lunch.  Now that is something we can handle.  

Post church, pre-lunch and football picture with Farris / Carinci / Asma cousins.  LOVE!

Thanksgiving dinner, because we needed a little something after our feast, at my parents with Papa!  Thanksgiving was always my Nana's thing, so no one was really looking forward to this day.  But it went just perfectly and I know she was smiling down!

Boys got the muscles and happy 31st birthday to UNC!

Post bath,  snuggly reading, my favorite time.

Friday night Charlie and I headed back to Chapel Hill, kid free, for a night out to celebrate a friends birthday.  These boys got to have a sleepover and play football all day long.  The weather was glorious.

We made it back on Saturday in time for some trampoline cousin play time.

And a tar heel win! And snacks, lots of snacks.

Look mom! Two of them!

Saturday nights drive home was nice and quiet.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Let your roots go down into Christ, and let your lives be built on Him.  Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.  Colossians 2:7

Feasting!

Let the feasting begin!  Today we had a Thanksgiving 'feast' with Nash's pre-school class.  Everyone brought their favorite dishes including roasted duck, that Nash and Charlie got down on.  I preferred the cookie cake,  I am sure the Pilgrims brought cookie cake to share.  

weekend-ing

Another awesome picture done by the one, the only, Chuck E. Cheese.  Maybe I will see if he can just do our Christmas card picture.  We might be able to fit everyone's chin in that frame.  Big heads ya'll.  This place is the hot spot for birthdays this year.  Party on, the new Friday night.

Saturday visit in Goldsboro at Papa's house.  A really terrible attempt at a picture, but I love it anyways.  

My cousin Casie got married!  Jackson left this 'Advice for the Newlyweds.'  It was not prompted.  'Kiss on the lips.'  Pretty solid if I say so myself.  

Theo, the dancing machine, taking a break with Tat & Will. 

Family shot! This is not the Christmas card picture I had hoped for.

Thanksgiving Feast

Jackson's school had a 'Cafeteria Thanksgiving Feast' this past week and we were able to go.  This is the first time I have been able to eat with him at lunch and we were both pretty excited.  He was mainly pumped because he knew he was getting Jersey Mike's and so was I.  Charlie grubbed out on the cafeteria meal and not surprisingly wanted to lick his plate.  We will be back for more!

Dad, Jacksy, and Will

My big boy.  I got all my hair cut off before I went, whoops.

My dad was in town so he got to have 'cafeteria' feast with Miss Winslow!

Theo is 1 AND A HALF!

Theo-ba-beo is 1 1/2 today!  He is a wild, loud, busy, copy-cat, paci loving, monkey climbing, snuggle bug.  We are BFF, for now, so I am gonna soak it up while I can.  Things that are super cool about you - Every single night you remind us to say the blessing by holding your hands close to your face, smiling and saying 'Gah is geat.'  You are obsessed with telling people 'Byee-byeee, Byeeee, Bye-Bye' to anyone that walks by you or to anyone you want to leave you alone.  And you do it in the sweetest voice ever.  You twirl my hair and suck your paci just like your big brother Jackson.  You chase your brother Nash around the house yelling, 'BOOOO!' And you sleep better than your older brothers at night, the coolest thing you could ever do.

Stats -

Height - 33.07 inches (75%)

Weight - 27 lb. 10 oz. (89%)

Head - 19.49 inches (95%)

What MOM? Uno!

yard work

Wednesday's Wake and Rake…

I am not a big fan or early morning surprise risers, but if we can get this yard raked before school, cha-ching!  Sweet Greta is confused.

Bienvenidos a Miami

No one loves a good deal as much as Charlie.  Like when a cheap Thursday afternoon direct flight to Miami pops up and he suggest we go.  Of course we have to come back early Saturday morning for the  UNC football game, one of the thing he does love more than a good deal.  I usually want all the details and dates and say no we have kids to get taken care of  etc.  But then I remember we will only be gone 36 hours and we have awesome grandparents and aunts and uncles that live really close by and still actually like our kids!  Welcome to Miami, Bienvenidos a Miami.  We did some serious dining, a good amount of walking and had a few drinks.  I would do it all over again next week, just saying.

85 and sunny with a nice little breeze.  My pale forehead got a little toasty on our walk.

Look right here is our favorite Miami pizza spot!

Just kidding.  This was on the way to Joe's Stone Crab for dinner.  It was recommended by a lot of people but I was kind skeptical that it was a tourist trap.  It was not.  So good, worth the 1 1/2 wait.  I didn't take a single picture because it was that good.  Go there.

The next night we ate at The Bazaar. Ohhh Myyyy Goodddnessss.  It is fancy expensive delicious tapas.  If you like fancy delicious pricey food, go here.  This is a cocktail made with dry ice at your table, obviously.  I won't bore you with food pictures, but I did take them, and would order it all over again. 

S'Mores dessert 'bite.'  We look a little older and tired here, but we aren't, not at all.

While we were out, these dudes also grubbed.  Chic-fil-a, twice.  Dreamy.

And because this is too funny.  Rasheed Wallace was on our flight home.  Charlie was wearing his Sheed shirt 'Ball Don't Lie.'  I wanted a picture bad, but this had to do.  He seemed as friendly as you would imagine.